mistakes PayPal threatens to sue a cancer victim for dying, a "breach" of its rules Rob Beschizza

racism Lawyer for gun-toting St. Louis couple describes his clients as "melanin-deficient human beings" Thom Dunn

tabloids Hollywood hypocrites tearing America apart and rioters battling to destroy the United States, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder

video games Play Borderlands 3 and help map the foreign microbes found in human poop Gareth Branwyn

Gadgets Become a CompTIA-approved IT security pro with 7 different certification prep courses Boing Boing's Shop

antifa A Civil War reenactor tried to frame Antifa by fabricating threats against his own Civil War reenactments Thom Dunn

murphy's law The "ops lessons we all learn the hard way" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family's life under the Khmer Rouge Cory Doctorow

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

Business Amnesty vs. NSO Group Israel spyware lawsuit goes behind closed doors Xeni Jardin

Weird Police nab 'Carjacking-goatnapping' suspect, goat and human released unharmed Xeni Jardin

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow

books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza

advice Advice column question: "A Now-Famous Comedian Terrorized Me After I Rejected His Advances 20 Years Ago" Mark Frauenfelder

AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How to recognize AI snake oil Cory Doctorow

protest Nicaragua continues to be on its bullshit Seamus Bellamy

china Massive leak of Chinese government documents reveal the "no mercy" plan for Muslims in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow